"What crime have I committed!"
Upon hearing Hyuga Kaze's words, Hiruzen Sarutobi's face turned as cold and hard as iron. On the surface, he bravely confronted Hyuga Kaze and his group, but his right hand behind his back was frantically making hand gestures, hoping that an ANBU ninja would come to his aid.
"Sarutobi, you old dog!"
Tsunade, her face contorted with rage, stepped forward and furiously demanded, "You desecrated my grandfather's body, protected Danzo Shimura during his human experiments, and even led a group to kill me after I discovered the truth! Do you dare deny these crimes?!"
Amid Tsunade's shouts and curses, Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression grew increasingly grim. He stared intently at his disciple, his eyes filled with sorrow and disappointment.
Almost the instant Tsunade finished speaking, Hiruzen Sarutobi took a deep breath to calm his turbulent emotions and then said, "Tsunade, I don't understand why you would associate with Hyuga Kaze, a traitor of Konoha, and slander your teacher like this."
Have you forgotten your identity as a Konoha ninja, forgotten that you are the granddaughter of the First and Second Hokage?
At this point, Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly became very agitated: "Tsunade, my disciple, return to Konoha! Don't be misled by those traitors anymore! Konoha is where you grew up and lived, and the position of Fifth Hokage has always been reserved for you!"
Not only did Sarutobi vehemently deny his own crimes, but he also turned his attention to questioning her. Tsunade was so angry that her chest heaved violently, and she was speechless for a moment.
After calming down slightly, Tsunade continued to press her advantage, "Hiruzen Sarutobi, how dare you mention our two grandfathers! You desecrated their remains and used the forbidden technique, Impure World Reincarnation, that's for sure!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's old face twitched a few times, and his aged body hunched even more. He looked at Tsunade with a sad and disappointed expression, as if he were looking at a disobedient and rebellious daughter.
"Tsunade, you've misunderstood your teacher. I did this to protect Konoha. You left Konoha and disappeared without a trace. I'm getting old and my strength is declining. To resist evil people like Hyuga Kaze and the Akatsuki, disturbing my peaceful sleep was unavoidable."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's words were full of sarcasm and sarcasm, and while trying to exonerate himself, he didn't forget to smear Tsunade. Listening to him, Tsunade trembled with anger, unsure how to expose his true colors.
"Then what about my father?!"
Kurenai Yuhi, supporting the agitated Tsunade, looked at the Third Hokage, whom she had once greatly respected, with a cold expression.
"Hmph, I was wrong to use the Impure World Reincarnation on Shinku. But it was all for the sake of protecting Konoha. The enemy that attacked this time has a ninjutsu that can absorb other people's ninjutsu, so I can only start with genjutsu."
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Kurenai Yuhi, his face displaying a complex mix of guilt, sadness, and exhaustion.
"I understand that doing this will cause you great harm, but I have a clear conscience in protecting Konoha! As long as it is for the protection of Konoha, I will allow the successor Hokage to arrange my body as well!"
"you!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's silver tongue left Tsunade and Kurenai Yuhi speechless with anger.
"Don't let people like this affect your mood."
Hyuga Kaze grabbed Tsunade and Kurenai, whose faces were flushed and who were about to resort to force. He looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi, his voice as cold and sharp as a knife: "Hiruzen Sarutobi, do you think you can erase your sins by being shameless and denying them?"
Stop dreaming!
Whether you confess or not, you're dead today! But given your heinous acts, you deserve to be utterly disgraced, despised by millions, and then die!
After finishing speaking, Hyuga Kaze ignored Hiruzen Sarutobi, whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and instead began to circulate his inner energy. In an instant, his inner energy surged and flowed through his eight meridians, and with a slight lift of his hand, a powerful force erupted from his body.
This action caused Hiruzen Sarutobi and the remaining Konoha ninja to involuntarily take several steps back, their faces filled with wariness and fear. An indescribable tension seemed to permeate the air.
The next moment, the ground behind the Hokage Rock suddenly shook violently. Everyone looked in astonishment and saw the ground there churning violently like ocean waves, as if something was gushing out from underground. With a chilling cracking sound, a huge hole appeared in the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a massive underground shelter rapidly rose from the hole and was completely exposed to everyone's view.
That was Konoha's last hope, the village's emergency refuge. After Nagato invaded Konoha, countless Konoha civilians, children, and Sarutobi clan ninjas hid there, their faces now filled with terror and helplessness.
"what happened?"
"Has the enemy broken in?"
"Be careful, everyone, don't run around!"
The fantastical scene of the entire underground base rising up plunged the base into extreme chaos, with screams and cries of panic rising and falling.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes widened in shock, his mouth agape, and he was speechless for a moment.
He simply couldn't believe what was happening before his eyes. That was a huge underground space that had hidden nearly 10,000 people, and it was hidden nearly 100 meters underground! Even the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball might not be able to hit that area, yet Hyuga Kaze had lifted it up so easily.
"Silence!" Hyuga Kaze's voice carried an undeniable authority. With a soft command, an invisible force instantly enveloped the entire shelter. Whether ninja or civilian, everyone felt as if their bodies were being crushed by a mountain-like force. The powerful restraint silenced them all, and they stared at Hyuga Kaze with terrified eyes.
"Alright, the audience is now in position."
Hyuga Kaze's gaze swept over Hiruzen Sarutobi. "Now, it's time to judge your sins!"
After finishing his sentence, Hyuga Kaze ignored Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was red-faced and struggling to break free of his restraints. He skillfully used his mind to manipulate the ultra-high-definition camera and projector in the training room. Instantly, a giant light screen that Sarutobi Hiruzen loathed unfolded in the sky, and then a series of images began to play automatically.
In addition to previously shown clips of Shisui, human experimentation, and various classified files, there was also a scene in today's battle where Hiruzen Sarutobi pushed a Konoha ninja behind him, sending him to his death.
As soon as the giant light screen appeared in the sky, Hiruzen Sarutobi's face turned deathly pale, his eyes filled with struggle and despair.
The night of the Uchiha clan massacre a few years ago was precisely because of this very screen that too much information that was not suitable for outsiders to know was exposed, plunging Konoha into a prolonged period of turmoil. If it weren't for Hiruzen Sarutobi's skillful handling of the situation, he would have been utterly disgraced by now.
"Stop, you bastard! You went to great lengths to forge numerous images in the past few years, trying to sow discord within Konoha. Are you trying to pull the same trick again today?!"
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